sock puppet

sock puppet

A social media account in which one misrepresents their identity, usually to appear as another person who agrees with the views or comments expressed through their main account. The name refers to a type of hand puppet, in which a sock is fitted over the hand. After some time, it was discovered that the CEO had several sock puppet Twitter accounts, which he used to rave about his business and drive customers to his site. It didn't take long until sock puppets overran the thread with controversial posts that were all very similar to each other in tone and style. I'm skeptical of these 200 glowing reviews—I bet they're all by sock puppets.
See also: puppet, sock
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • identity politics
  • take sides
  • nome
  • Nome sane?
  • Nome sayin'?
  • middle ground
  • lickarse
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The three sock puppet designs--Arrrgyle the Pirate, Princess Slipperfoot and Paws the Dog--come with a backstory that is included on the accompanying card.
But the real story is far more complicated, a mix of overambitious dreamers, exploited employees, managers with no idea what they're doing and villains who often seem as innocuous as the Sock Puppet. In fact, the rapid growth of e-commerce shows just how well capitalism conforms to whatever comes its way.
We certainly didn't need the demises this month of Furniture.com and Pets.com (home of the lovable, if now lamented, doggie sock puppet) to prove that e-tailing is not quite going to live up to the expectations a whole lot of the experts had predicted.
The Sock Puppet is the voice of pets and an advocate of pets, conveying to children and adults alike how pets feel about a wide variety of pet-related issues.
Pets.com is taking its own highly visible road in mapping its marketing strategy, which includes launching a private label line of dog and cat food, dog biscuits and cat litter; signing exclusive alliance agreements with pet-related health, information and merchandise sites; and turning the company's Sock Puppet "spokesdog" into a superstar via licensing and marketing agreements.
Pets.com scored highly, not merely because its sock puppet spokes-thing is clever, but because its message had been seen before.
The sock puppet campaign for Pets.com has been this year's winner in advertising.
They were talking about that cute little dog sock puppet who's in the commercials for Pets.com.
Afterward, participants can use the puppet stage to make their own show with the stuffed animal they brought or make a sock puppet with materials provided.
Call 029 2063 6464 or visit www.wmc.org.uk The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Company In a comedy act that has to be seen to be believed, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Company present their show Minging Detectives.
For example: There's Eric's sock puppet re-enactment of the night Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday'' to JFK, and the president proposes they follow up by having sexual intercourse "with vigah.''
? MADONNA announced her new tour in a humorous clip featuring a sock puppet. It'll have you rolling around on the floor.
No need to book, just come and have a go at making something from natural or recycled materials, such as a mini raft, sock puppet, elder friendship bands or scarecrows.
Meet Tyrone, the dirty-minded, foulmouthed sock puppet who steals the show in "Hand to God," Robert Askins' pitch-black comedy about a teenage boy whose rebellious thoughts and forbidden sexual urges cut loose and go on a bloody rampage after his father dies.
Wednesday LAMBCHOP (not to be confused with the sock puppet) once declared itself to be "Nashville's most f***-up country band".